The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-04-14
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Latest Events q Inpsrsaass An Over ~
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The Interstate Commerce Commiseton I
has organized and begun business.
Another revolutionary plot has bssn
discovered in Spain and numerous arrests
have been made.
Messrs. Fairchild and Maynard, ths
new Secretary and Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, have taken the oath Of
Office and assumed the duties of their
positions.
The Americus Club, Of Pittsburg, has
arranged to celebrate General Grants
birthday, April ~, in fitting manner.
Hon. Roscoe Conkling will be among those
participating.
The Connecticut Legislature has passed
bill requiring q weekly payment TO
wOrkmen and one also exempting work
mems wages from attachments to the
amount Of $50.
Ex-Secretary Manning is sojourning at
Bournemouth, England. He is suffering
from heart complaint, but his malsdy q
not serious enough to prevent him from
driving out daily.
The American sprinter, Myers, in Q race
of 500 yards with the English runner,
George, Al Sydney, Australia, won BY
three-fourths of yard In three minutes
and forty-six seconds.
Mrs. Angus Cameron, wife Of ex- United
States Senator Cameron, attempted 70
drown herself in the river at Lacrosse,
Wis. Mrs. Cameron has been sufferer
for some years, and her Affections have
unsettled her reason.
The Duchess of Cumberland, youngest
daughter of the King Of Denmark, and
sister of the King of Greece, the Czarina
of Russia, and the Princess Of Wales, has
been placed in lunstic asylum near
Vienna for melancholia.
At a meeting of the Democratic State
committee of Virginia It was decided to
call q State convention to adopt plat
form for this years campaign. The Leg
islature which will be elected will choose
United States senator to succeed Mr..
Riddleberger.
The appropriation of 4149, ,749 to indem-
Nifty Chinese subjects for the murder Of
their kinsmen at Rock Springs, Wyoming
Territory, has been placed to the credit Of
the disbursing officer of the Department
of State, for payment to the Chinese min
lister at Washington.
The New York railroad commissioners
have made an official study Of the problem
of heating passenger cars safely, and re-
ported to the Legislature that no stove or
heater is safe, and that 1t is practicable to
heat q train of the usual length with
steam or hot air from the engine or from
car constructed for that purpose.
Five negroes were lynched at York
Vile, s. c., for beating to death boy Of
10 years who caught them stealing cot
ton from his fathers field. Two Of the
negroes confessed the crime and said they
all belonged to the Rising Star Lodge, an
organization formed for plunder and mu-
tual defense against punishment.
A high-license bill has been passed by
the Legislature of New York, liking the
fee for license to sell spirituous liquors
in New York and Brooklyn, to be drunk
on the premises, at 81 900, and license to
publican members of the Assembly voted
for 1t but four, and all the Democratic
members but one voted against It.
Three persons who were concerned In
the attempt to assassinate the Gar by
means of bombs, in st. Petersburg, on
March 10, have been hung. Another At
tempt has been made to assassinate him
by shooting at him, but the assailant was
numerous arrests of persons charged
with completely have been made.
Three persons who were concerned in
the attempt to assassinate the Gear by
means of bombs, in st. Petersburg, on
March 13, have been hung. Another at
tempt has been made to assassinate him
at once overpowered and arrested, and
numerous arrests of persons charged with
completely have been made.
The completely of Egyptian officials in
the fraudulent sale of state lands, and
the existence of ring in the finance
ministry whereby the Egyptian govern
ment has been defrauded of $z5O, 900,
have been discovered. An American,
Masod Bey, who is at the head of the
land department, has declared himself in
nocent and demanded an inquiry.
More movements have been made to
overcome the French sympathy Of the
people of Alsace-Lorraine. A bill has
been introduced in the German Reichstas
to limit the power of the Alsatian Diet
and so to change the education law a.
gradually to abolish teaching the French
language. Eleven Alsatians have been
, sentenced to imprisonment at Berlin for
, six months for wearing tri-colored ribbons
, there. A delegate to the Reichstag from
Alsace-Lorraine has been exiled because
' of his French sympathies.
All the criminal cases set for the Apri]
: term of the United States District Court
at Cleveland, O., had to be postponed
until October next because of the failure
of Congress to pass the deficiency bill
which leaves the court without funds tc
pay witnesses. Among the deferred casei
: are several important ones, in which
:, officers of national banks are indicted fol
: embezzlement and brokers for completely
: Similar postponements for the SAINT
= = reason are reported from other points.
: The Tory ministry in England have In
e troduced an Irish coercion bill. Its chieI
v features are to give the magistrates power
J, to examine witnesses on oath, even wher
e no persons are charged with crime; Il
r give the government power to chang,
J, the venue for graver offenses from Ire
e land to England, and to give the viceroy
power to prescribe dangerous societiei
! which he decides to be disturbing thu
q peace. Mr.. Gladstone in opposing 1
r said: among the most insulting and ex
d asperating proposals, the worst ever sub
}. mitted to Parliament, Is the provision
3 that Irish trials be held in London.
u have never known such n hlow AZ TN